On Religion and Addiction

I've been thinking about the similarity between addiction and fake religion (as opposed to true religion) lately.

The difference between being an addict and living Life normally is very much like the difference between fake religion and real religion.

In both addiction and fake religion the underlying problem is the inability to recognize the beauty in Life and feel reverent awe for the holiness of Life and all existence. And so, in order to feel something intensely, we begin to make a facsimile and do a parody, a ceremonial representation, an exaggeration to the point of grotesque reenactment of the elements of Life. Eventually the caricature of Life becomes a mockery of Life.

It is painful for me to admit, but nonetheless true, that Judaism is the most guilty of having created an elaborate ceremonial travesty. This farce is based on not understanding what Torah is really saying and, as a result, Jews perform ceremonies when we should be living Life in the full awareness of the indwelling sanctity. Then, not being satisfied by these artificial enactments of Life, just as those who are addicted to refined sugar instead of eating fruit and those addicted to opioids instead of living Life in such a way that the normal levels of dopamine will be produced in the brain, and like those who are addicted to sex because they do not know how to make love; so the Jew finds only emptiness in the ceremonial re-enactment of what he has not understood. Instead of rethinking his understanding, he compounds the ceremonies with additional strictures and customs. Finding himself even more separated from his Soul and feeling ever more starved for what he really needs and desperate, he becomes rigid and adamant and intolerant.

The Catholics learned to perform ceremonies instead of living Life from the Jews. They are doing re-enactments of the re-enactments of the Jews compounded by their complete removal from the Source.

It is good that the Protestants rejected the many ceremonies of Catholicism. At least, they are not burdened with re-enacting re-enactments on top of further misunderstanding the misunderstandings of the Jews.

Both addiction and fake religion derive from some occlusion in the Soul that does not allow the natural appreciation of the greatness of Life and they are  hyperbolic experiences of what should be normal Life experiences for those who are occluded and numbed to the point of not seeing the obvious, ambient sanctity of Life and wonder in all that is.

The torments of addiction eventually lead the occluded Soul to force himself or herself to look at the Universe and ask what is wrong. Eventually, the addict is brought to his or her knees and surrenders.
Dare we be as hopeful for the Rabbis?

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel
DoreenDotan@gmail.com

I AM NOT AN ANTI -SEMITE!

Arabs are Semites too. No, not I'm anti-Jewish. I'm just anti-Zionist. But no, I wouldn't want the Israelis to clear out of Palestine and come to my country and have to compete against them for jobs. And no, I'm not really happy that Arabs are emigrating to Europe. It's just that I love the Palestinians soooo much and my heart breaks for them so much more than it does for the Basques, the Frisians, the Chechnyans, the Sami and the other 300 stateless peoples in Europe whose names I never bothered to learn.

I've had a belly full of the Syrup of ipecac anti-Semites occupying places like: Omaha, Honolulu, Alaska, Mississippi, Tennessee, Cheyenne, Seattle, Dakota, Nebraska....who don't get the irony of forming groups with names like Occupy Topeka, thinking it's a dig against Israel, and have lots to say about the Israelis occupying "Palestine".

BTW: The name "Palestine" comes from the Semitic root p-l-s or ph-l-s, which means one who squats, invades, or usurps, breaches. Does anyone really believe there is a People who call themselves Palestinians? Who the hell calls themselves The Invaders? Only Roy Thinnes on American TV. The anti-Semites who don't speak Arabic or Hebrew don't even know "the Palestinians" are taking the piss on them.

Notice how few the Europeans are who criticize their own ex-pats for occupying Ottawa or Delaware.

Some White folks really need to lay off the fluoridated hooch.

When they turn on the White Noise Machine, I ask them: Would you prefer that I help you occupy "America"?

One of the people who got my goat recently was an Irish moron whom I blocked after he told me I have no right to occupy "Palestine" and told me I should come to live in Ireland, where I would enjoy being half Jewish in a country infested with Catholic and Protestant cultivated anti-Semitism instead of being a bloody occupier.

Something tells me that he would not have suggested the same thing to me if I was still occupying Miami.

Ever meet an Irishman or Irishwoman who ragged on Irish ex-pats for occupying Ohio?

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel

DoreenDotan@gmail.com

Belief System

A Belief System is not so much about the beliefs, but the System. When you enter into a Belief System, you enter a Covenant with all of the others who have adopted and devoted themselves to the same Belief System. It is, therefore, imperative that you observe how the people who adopted this Belief System comported themselves in actuality, not what they claimed to believe in, because your Soul is now intimately tied with all of them.

Don't let the beauty of the claims of the beliefs influence your decision whether or not to join - ask yourself if you are honored and dignified by the Society.

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel

DoreenDotan@gmail.com

MANUFACTURED THOUGHTS AND EMOTIONS

Your emotions and thoughts are, in the main, manufactured by the image makers. You cry when they push your buttons. You laugh when they push your buttons. You become indignant when they push your buttons. And all it takes to push your buttons is to put before you a cleverly-crafted, striking image. You have been subjected to systematic Pavlovian conditioning over many years. You salivate when the media tell you to.

There is another aspect of manufactured emotions that the public should be made aware of. In addition to making these images very startling in order to arouse the desired emotions in the public and steer them down blind alleys to non-action; those who are controlling society are also doing their best to make people's everyday lives as grey, banal, boring and marked by drudgery as possible. Against the grey background of the public's manufactured lives, the manufactured images are all the more startling - and the public is all the more hungry for some color, some excitement - to feel something.

I know it's unpleasant to admit that we've been conditioned. I went through the process of admitting that, bright a bulb as I thought I was; I too had been duped and conditioned It's humbling and disturbing to realize that the techniques developed in labs on animals have worked on me too. But there is no getting free of the manipulation until we admit this to ourselves. Once we get over the ego hurtle of realizing what has been done to us and accepting that we fell prey to it, the conditioning becomes painfully obvious and we are no longer subject to it. We can work our way out of a trap only if we realize that we are in a trap.

I cannot stroke your egos and tell you what you want to hear about this. You must become the Masters of both your thoughts and your emotions. Until you master your emotions and your thoughts, you will be slaves to The System.

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel

DoreenDotan@gmail.com

CORPORATE BRANDING

Now realize this has been done to your Psyche not by one brand, but my countless brands since your birth. It is done again and again, every day, everywhere you go. You cannot go out a day in your life without having your Psyche assaulted by a hot Brand.
It is done to your children too.
Do you see now how much scarification has been done to you and to those whom you love?

When cattle owners brand their herd, they allay their consciences by telling themselves that the cattle are so thick-skinned they don't feel the pain. When corporation owners brand their herd they don't feel any compassion. They just tell themselves that their herd are so thick-skulled that they'll believe that branding is fun.
Are you outraged enough yet to stop the assault? 
 
Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel
DoreenDotan@gmail.com

Aim HIGH - Think Highly of Yourself

Aim HIGH. Aim very high when confronting those who are corrupt.
If you concern yourself only with your national politicians, you are concerning yourself with clerks. Their job is not policy determination - it is simple on-the-ground implementation. The corporate press pumps them up in the public's eyes. So, they look very important. But a President or a Prime Minister is really just a glorified clerk - of little importance.
Your level of Freedom is directly proportional to the highest level in the Chain of Command that you are willing to confront.
Think highly of Yourself. Very highly.

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel

DoreenDotan@gmail.com

DOREEN ELLEN BELL-DOTAN'S ANTI-WAR SPEECH CENSORED HEAVILY

ON FACEBOOK

Sept 7, 13

Knowing in advance that my position is staunchly ANTI-WAR, I've been pre-empted on Facebook.

For the last two days, my ability to post has been severely reduced on Facebook.
I cannot send messages, receive messages, comment on others' threads, share posts or delete posts and my ability to comment on my own posts is severely limited.
Also I cannot see any details about photos whatsoever and cannot comment on them. The whole right side where those functions should be is a blank.
I also have no Older Stories function either on my page or on others'.
I can only see a few items on my page, only three on others' and no more.  

Revolutionary Meditation

There is nothing that rulers like better than people who focus their energy on their belly buttons and are therefore rendered ineffectual or who chant mantras rather than Propagandizing to the purpose of Awakening Others.

Intentional Action with Others to the purpose of serving the Highest Ideal you Visualize in Common is the highest form of Meditation. It involves you and others, together, on the level of your Souls, your Psyches, your Minds and your Bodies.
It is, therefore, the most comprehensive form of Meditation, which you do on every level of Being *and* it is done Collectively, thus amplifying the power manifold.

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel
DoreenDotan@gmail.com

ב"ה

מלך – יועץ ולא שליט

שׂוֹם תָּשִׂים עָלֶיךָ מֶלֶךְ, אֲשֶׁר יִבְחַר יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ בּוֹ:  מִקֶּרֶב אַחֶיךָ, תָּשִׂים עָלֶיךָ מֶלֶךְ--לֹא תוּכַל לָתֵת עָלֶיךָ אִישׁ נָכְרִי, אֲשֶׁר לֹא-אָחִיךָ הוּא.
– דברים י"ז: ט:ו

התואר מלך בתורה הוא במובן של יועץ, ולא שולט

פרוש שרש מ-ל-ך הוא גם ליעץ וגם להועץ

עתה, אנו יכולים להבין את הכתוב בתורה אודות מלכים.

כאשר אנו יועצים לאדם ו/או מקבלים עצה ממנו, אנו מלכים

מלך = 570 = לי לך = מכנסת = נסמכת

דוד = 14 = אוהב = אהוב

דוד מלך = אוהב לי לך

דוד הוא היועץ האוהב והאהוב, ולא השולט

המלכה = 100 = ק

המובן של המלכה הוא אינו אשת השולט בתורה, אלא העצה

נמלך = 620 = כם = כתר

יושם אל לב: מובן זה של שרש מ-ל-ך מופיע הרבה בספרות הציונית – אך כמעט נעלם בזמן קום המדינה

דורין אלן בל-דותן, צפת
DoreenDotan@gmail.com

B"H

The Hebrew Root M-L-Kh Means Adviser or Counselor, not King

For thirty-one years I am in Israel and did not know until this Shabbat that the Hebrew word Melekh, which is usually translated 'king' has another, more original, meaning: Counselor or Adviser.

The meaning of the word that is usually translated as 'king' in Torah, does not mean ruler, but rather Adviser or Counselor.

Interestingly, the same radical  m-l-kh means both to advise and to be advised by.

This, correct, use of the radical M-L-Kh was common in the original Zionist literature, but was silenced when the State was established.

Now, the name David, as is commonly known, means beloved.

In Hebrew Gematria, it also equals 'the one who loves'.

So King David in Hebrew means: Loving Adviser and Beloved Advisor.

The name Shlomo (Solomon) comes from the radical sh-l-m which means: Perfection.

King Shlomo, then, is Perfect Counselor or Perfect Adviser.

So, now we know the true understanding of everything that is written in Torah about what we thought are, but are actually all those who Advise and Counsel us in Love.

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel

DoreenDotan@gmail.com

omeone on LinkedIn asked in the Spirituality and Consciousness Group:
How is consciousness different from thought?

This is my tentative answer, which I hope will make the greatness of Humanity eminently clear to our detractors.

Thought is talking to consciousness. Consciousness is unwavering and above language. Thought is language-dependent.
Thought is a conference, deliberation and negotiation between unlimited possibility (Consciousness) and thought which issues from the desire of the heart to bring about a specific reality.

There is One Consciousness that contains everything that can be, everything that is potentially can be and everything that cannot be.
In Human form, we have taken it upon ourselves to examine only certain aspects of the One Consciousness.
To use the terminology of the day: it is a "‪#‎Fractal".
We are "zooming in" to consider certain parts of the pattern. Sometimes we "zoom out" for what seems like an instant in retrospect and see the whole One Consciousness, but it is not differentiated and we don't see all the possible details - just the fact that it is infinite. So, we return to our current consciousness and look at it detail by detail, in accordance with our abilities as Humans.
There is something else that happens in the "zoom out" - we can't relate to anyone in particular, because we don't see the particulars.
Thoughts are the considerations of part of the pattern (the "zoom in"). Consciousness is The all-Encompassing (the "zoom out").
The All is contained in the particulars, of course. We can see this when we perceive the meaning of the particulars and what they represent. This is a "Fractal" after all. Yet, we are still able to observe differentiated particulars in the Human "zoomed in" focus.
It's hard to put into words what I mean. I try very hard not to use flowery language and terms that are overused.
First, when we understand things; we are able to express them in our own words.
More importantly, the sublime has to line up with the ordinary flow of life. If we sound too fancy, we have not merged the sublime and the mundane - and do so is what Life is all about.
The word "spiritual" makes me uncomfortable. Actuality is where the action is happening.
When we see the sublime in the mundane we feel the urge to Morality strongly and want conditions of Justice and Compassion for all Creatures - conditions within which they can fully actualize their potential.
If I strive for Anarchy in socio-political structures it is only because I know that Anarchy is an Ontological principle and only in Anarchy can we be the Everything we are meant to be.

Above I wrote: There is something else that happens in the "zoom out" - we can't relate to anyone in particular, because we don't see the particulars.

I'd like to elaborate on this point.
The judging Human limitation, frailty, incapability in negative terms is not understanding that we are taking on Human form precisely in order to be able to perceive only a small part of the entirety that is Consciousness.
In Human form we create the illusion of "other" in order to be able to relate, to learn from, to help, to play with. All that does not exist when we are in full-on God mode.
Our exalted greatness resides precisely in our willingness to sacrifice the Omniscience and Omnipotence that is our true Self in order to create particulars to be able to relate to "Others".
"Others" and "Limitations" are the illusions We create in order to be able to give.
The alternative to being limited and fragile in order to be able to give is to be Omnipotent and Omniscient and Eternally All Alone.
Everyone you see around you is God who made the decision to become a Human and accept all the pain and travail that entails in order to be able to do some act of kind for another, because we have to become limited in order to an Other to exist.
The price we pay for not living lovingly and morally is that the frailties and limitations we took on in order to be able to relate to an Other remain - but the original Purpose for taking on the trials and travails and vulnerabilities inherent in being Human are not realized. So, we find ourselves limited, vulnerable, frail - and lonely and unfulfilled.
It is only in the relating to others lovingly and morally that the Sacrifice of giving up our Omnipotence and Omniscience that we made when we took on Human form is worthwhile.

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel

DoreenDotan@gmail.com

HYPOTHESIS:

Is Unrequited Desire the Progenitor of Potential Realities?

As a young Philosophy student, I pondered the status of potential worlds. What, I asked Myself, is a potential world? Does it exist? If it does exist, then is it potential properly? Are potential worlds generated? If so, by what?
I think that now, decades later; I have some of the answers I sought so long ago.

We are all familiar with the experiences of unrequited love and disappointment.
We tend to think of these experiences as negative and undesirable because they cause us great discomfort.

To make matters worse, we have been taught to believe that the resulting ruminating, fantasizing, wondering what might have been are unhealthy, "obsessive" ways of thinking that should be eschewed. We are admonished for "brooding".
We are told to "buck up" and "accept reality" and "cope".
We are told that to imagine that which is not, is "magical thinking", which we are told is the weakness of children and the feeble-minded. We are taught that brooding is futile.

But is pain the measure of whether or something is undesirable?
Birth, for instance, is very painful for most women. Should it be eschewed, then, and considered undesirable?

Perhaps the thought process that we well-nigh universally experience as the result of not having that which we desired, of having our hopes dashed is not called "brooding" spuriously. Perhaps, indeed, we are hatching something. Perhaps the pining for that which we wanted and lost, or never realized, is a species of birth pangs.

When we get that which we dearly and urgently desired, our reality lines up fairly neatly with how we visualized and hoped things would turn out. The pretty blonde who moved in next door accepts our invitation for dinner. We ace the interview for the coveted job. Our fantasies and hopes and visualizations become concrete reality. All is well with the world – this world.
What has actually happened is that what they call a "Quantum Collapse" in modern sort-of-scientific jargon has occurred. One reality has come into being and our minds do not visualize alternatives because we are satisfied with the results.

What happens, however, when our hopes are dashed? What happens when the neighbor next door, who we have come to really like, does not wish to begin an intimate relationship or we do not get the job in the office with a view that we wanted, and perhaps need, so very much?

We begin to brood. We begin to visualize how we wished the event had turned out, but did not. We begin to second-guess the person's motives for not granting us our heart's desire. We begin to weigh all sorts of possibilities as to why the rejection occurred. Maybe the boss already has someone else in mind for that job and interviewing me was only a formality. Maybe the boss wants his nephew to have the job. Maybe I wasn’t qualified enough. Maybe I said something offensive during the interview. Maybe my suit is not fancy enough…

Maybe the girl next door is interested in someone else. Maybe she is gay. Maybe I had bad breath. Maybe she wants someone richer than I. Maybe I am more intelligent than she feels comfortable with. Maybe….

Each one of those possible scenarios - *exists in a potential world*.

The satisfaction of our desires creates an actual world. Our visualization and reality lined up and there is no reason to visualize alternative scenarios. A "Quantum Collapse of a cloud of possibilities", as they are wont to call the phenomenon nowadays, occurred.

Not having our desires fulfilled, however, generates a virtual tsunami of thought. We begin to examine every possibility we can think of looking for an explanation of why we did not get what we so fervently wanted.

Now here is the beautiful part. Each of those scenarios that we imagine is but one potential event *in an entire potential world*. No individual event can occur without having an entire world as a support system for that scenario. If we imagine, for instance, that we lost the job because someone was better qualified than we, we are creating a potential world in which there must be potential qualification, and potential methods of acquiring those potential qualifications, and, therefore, in that world the concept of acquisition potentially exists...A potential scene in a potential world must be supported by all sorts of potential phenomena.

Now here's the part that's even more beautiful: Some of the potential elements in that potential world may be just what someone in an actual world might want or need. Maybe that which the person wants or needs does not exist in that person's actual world, but it is a necessary element in the world which is the support system for one of our ruminations, our brooding. We have hatched a world in which someone's desires may be able to be fulfilled, including our own.

If that which exists potentially in our imaginary world, as part of the support system of that which we hoped existed, are things and circumstances that many others embrace, perhaps that desire is enough to make our potential world into an actual world.

And if that is the case, then the non-fulfillment of some of our desires in this world is not only positive, it is immensely productive. Unrequited Desire might be the Progenitor of other worlds – worlds that begin in potential might just might be actualized if enough folks need or want it so.

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel
DoreenDotan@gmail.com